18 Bible Verses on Mental Health, and What Each One Was Actually Written For

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Resumen

  • Scripture has no word for depression and no advice about treating it; what it has is a lament tradition and five men who said they would rather be dead.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was written to exiles told the return was seventy years off, so nobody who first heard it expected relief in their lifetime.
  • Joshua 1:9 is a military commission to a man taking command, not a word about mood.
  • Psalm 23’s “makes me lie down” is rest imposed by somebody who could see the animal needed it.
  • Elijah asked to die and was answered with food and sleep before anything was said to him.

Scripture has no word for depression and no advice about treating it. What it has instead is a great deal of honest company. Roughly a third of the Psalms are complaints, one of them ends with the word darkness and no resolution at all, and at least five men in the Bible say plainly that they would rather be dead — Moses, Elijah, Job, Jonah and Jeremiah, none of them rebuked for it. That is the material worth knowing about,…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

This page is not medical advice. If you are struggling, please speak to a doctor.

Psalm 88 ends without resolution; its final word in Hebrew is darkness.

The five who asked to die: Moses (Numbers 11:15), Elijah (1 Kings 19:4), Job (Job 3:11-13), Jonah (Jonah 4:3) and Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:14-18).

Elijah is given food and sleep at 1 Kings 19:5-8, before anything is said to him.

Job’s friends sit with him in silence for seven days at Job 2:13.

Paul’s despair of life itself is at 2 Corinthians 1:8. Luke is called the beloved physician at Colossians 4:14.

The burden of Galatians 6:2 is baros; the load of Galatians 6:5 is phortion.

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